CONFLUENCE OF TRADITIONS

Chapter:

CHAPTER 7 Music for an Intellectual and Political Elite

Source:

MUSIC FROM THE EARLIEST NOTATIONS TO THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY

Author(s):

Richard Taruskin

The motets examined thus far, all of them deriving from a specific clausula-protoype, demonstrate the descent of the motet
from the liturgical repertory of Notre Dame. That is only half the story, though. A glance at another texting of the same
Ex semine clausula will suggest the other half. Figure 7-4, allowing for the minor copying variants one must expect to find when comparing manuscripts, is musically identical to Fig. 7-3. The appearance of the notation, of course, is altogether different, but that difference should not mislead us. Since it
comes from a Notre Dame source (our old friend W2), the notation in Fig. 7-4 is pre-mensural. The motetus and triplum are laid out in score (although the tenor is now entered separately, to save space,
as in Fig. 7-3), and the notes are graphically undifferentiated as to rhythm. But by now we know that the intended rhythm is the same one
represented in modal notation in Fig. 7-2a and mensural notation in Fig. 7-3.

Citation (MLA):

Richard Taruskin.
"Chapter 7 Music for an Intellectual and Political Elite."
The Oxford History of Western Music.
Oxford University Press.
New York, USA.
n.d.
Web.
19 Dec. 2018.
<http://www.oxfordwesternmusic.com/view/Volume1/actrade-9780195384819-div1-007004.xml>.

Citation (APA):

Taruskin, R. (n.d.). Chapter 7 Music for an Intellectual and Political Elite. In Oxford University Press, Music from the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century. New York, USA.
Retrieved 19 Dec. 2018, from http://www.oxfordwesternmusic.com/view/Volume1/actrade-9780195384819-div1-007004.xml

Citation (Chicago):

Richard Taruskin.
"Chapter 7 Music for an Intellectual and Political Elite."
In Music from the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century, Oxford University Press.
(New York, USA,
n.d.).
Retrieved 19 Dec. 2018, from http://www.oxfordwesternmusic.com/view/Volume1/actrade-9780195384819-div1-007004.xml

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